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15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster ...

14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

Amundsen’s team arrived five weeks ahead of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova ...

13th December 902: Æthelwold’s revolt against Edward the Elder is defeated

Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the ...

12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

Literally translated as ‘Fount of Life’, Lebensborn was designed to harness apparent racial purity through the birth of children conceived between Aryan women and members of the SS, often as a result of extramarital ...

11th December 1946: UNICEF established by the United Nations General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly established UNICEF to provide help for children in countries affected by World War ...

10th December 1901: First Nobel Prizes awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology

An urban legend states that an obituary printed erroneously left Nobel distressed at how he would be remembered, and resulted in him seeking a way to improve his legacy by funding the creation of Nobel ...

9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile ...

8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered outside his New York apartment block by Mark David Chapman

As Lennon walked from his limousine to the Dakota building’s front entrance, Mark David Chapman fired five rounds at his back, of which four hit ...

7th December 1972: The Blue Marble photograph taken of the whole Earth

The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the ...

6th December 1956: The ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic water polo match between the USSR and Hungary

The match was a semi-final at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games and became famous as a result of the violence that ran throughout the ...